Discussion of changes to Armageddon Website

[Potaje]

Amazingly wonderful, I get tingles. Superbly executed.

[Morgenes]

I've noticed that responses to requests aren't getting emailed; only the resolution/closure of the request.

Delirium,

   Are you not receiving staff responses, or your responses?

   If your responses did you check the checkbox 'Send me a copy'?  [Side Note: per previous discussion this is now defaulted to checked]

I'm playing with the response code and have tweaked it a little bit, hopefully that helps.  Let me know if you aren't receiving staff responses.

[Delirium]

I didn't receive the staff response, but I did have the box checked to 'email me a copy' when I initially filed the request, and I did get that copy of my initial request.

I don't often have reasons to file requests but I'll keep an eye on it for next time. Thanks!

[aruna]

Speaking of requests, I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it but when I go to view my requests I am missing some. The last one listed for me is from 12/31/09, and I've had at least two resolved since then.

Dig the new website otherwise - it does a lot better job of drawing me in than the old one did.

Edit: Strangely my new request titled "Requests missing" does show up.

[Nyr]

Aruna, check this out: http://www.zalanthas.org/gdb/index.php/topic,45198.msg742426.html#msg742426

[Morgenes]

Just a note that I noticed an issue in subjects being sent if there isn't a title on your request.  I've fixed this, but for those of you with requests without titles, you'll see your request emails split as I've changed the subject line slightly (missing space).

Sorry, it'll all be better soon.

[Delirium]

One suggestion I have is to make the link color different from the current dark red, which is pretty hard on the eyes (or at least, it is on mine).

You could sample a dusty orange color from the header/footer, I think that would work well. (a slightly darker one than the current header orange)

[aruna]

Aruna, check this out: http://www.zalanthas.org/gdb/index.php/topic,45198.msg742426.html#msg742426

My bad!

[mangler]

Not sure if anyone's yet mentioned this, but it seems some of the lists on the new website are outdated, such as the animal life and plant life docs, which have less content than the old ones. Just seems to contain what's in the helpfiles from what I can see, whilst the old docs had been updated to include more animals/plants. Not sure if this applies to more stuff.

[Sav]

Ignoring the transparency, I can't find any way to scroll down within that drop-down menu. I can get down to Merchant Houses, but no further.

That is, by the way, maxed vertically on my screen. (Tiiiny netbook.)

...and, after totally fullscreening Firefox, I realize that maybe my default view is the mobile layout? Man, no wonder I couldn't navigate.

Thanks for all the updates, Morgenes! I know layout stuff is taking a justified back seat to fixing the database stuff.

[AmandaGreathouse]

Not sure if anyone's yet mentioned this, but it seems some of the lists on the new website are outdated, such as the animal life and plant life docs, which have less content than the old ones. Just seems to contain what's in the helpfiles from what I can see, whilst the old docs had been updated to include more animals/plants. Not sure if this applies to more stuff.

This makes me want to check to see if it still includes the games information, and the page on how to read kruth cards, too, but unfortunately I'm about to head off to clean my room so it'll have to wait unless someone else wants to?

[musashi]

I've noticed that responses to requests aren't getting emailed; only the resolution/closure of the request.

Delirium,

   Are you not receiving staff responses, or your responses?

   If your responses did you check the checkbox 'Send me a copy'?  [Side Note: per previous discussion this is now defaulted to checked]

I'm playing with the response code and have tweaked it a little bit, hopefully that helps.  Let me know if you aren't receiving staff responses.

Just chiming in that I experienced this same thing.

I submitted a character report, and it was emailed to me.
Staff responded to my report (but did not resolve it, the report is still open), and that too was emailed to me.
I responded back to staff, but my response was not emailed to me.

[Morgenes]

Just chiming in that I experienced this same thing.

I submitted a character report, and it was emailed to me.
Staff responded to my report (but did not resolve it, the report is still open), and that too was emailed to me.
I responded back to staff, but my response was not emailed to me.

Not to be a smart-ass, but you didn't uncheck the 'Send me a copy' checkbox right?  Maybe check your spam folder?



For those of you with small screens

I have fixed the menu-ing issues that were visible on those with small form-factor screens (phones, small netbooks, vertical tablets...).  Note that the menu no longer sticks at the top for those form-factors like it does for large screen sizes.  Price you have to pay to be able to reach all the menus.

For those of you who were straining to read link colors

I have taken your advise and altered the color of links to be a brighter color that I feel is still in theme.  Hopefully it is still obvious what is a link and what isn't.  If not we can continue to tweak.

[Fathi]

This looks awesome and I like the new link colour much better!

One suggestion: "Maps" could go in "Intro" as its own section as well as "World > Geography" because I think new players rely on them a lot. People even ask about them in TeamSpeak. "Rules" could also go in "Intro" if not as its own header topic.

[Morgenes]

This looks awesome and I like the new link colour much better!

One suggestion: "Maps" could go in "Intro" as its own section as well as "World > Geography" because I think new players rely on them a lot. People even ask about them in TeamSpeak. "Rules" could also go in "Intro" if not as its own header topic.

Maps are now in Intro as well as World > Geography.

Added Rules to the Intro links as well.

[mansa]

http://armageddon.org/intro/walkthrough.php

i love it.

is there anyway to hotlink some of the keywords that are bolded/coded to the specific help files?



http://armageddon.org/help/view/Maps

i know this is just feeding from the helpfile, but perhaps it might be easier if there was a simple link for the maps, rather than a streaming line of ascii code?



amazing job everybody!

[Morgenes]

http://armageddon.org/intro/walkthrough.php

i love it.

is there anyway to hotlink some of the keywords that are bolded/coded to the specific help files?

Is there a way, yes, of course. It's a good idea, I'll throw it on the todo list.

http://armageddon.org/help/view/Maps

i know this is just feeding from the helpfile, but perhaps it might be easier if there was a simple link for the maps, rather than a streaming line of ascii code?

I could do some special handling based on the name of the file I suppose.

[Delirium]

Love the new link color. Much easier on the eyes too.

[Delirium]

Minor, but noticed this in mobile (safari, iPhone), check out the right side of the image. It happens in vertical and horizontal. Looks like a fixed width issue?

[Sav]

For those of you with small screens

I have fixed the menu-ing issues that were visible on those with small form-factor screens (phones, small netbooks, vertical tablets...).  Note that the menu no longer sticks at the top for those form-factors like it does for large screen sizes.  Price you have to pay to be able to reach all the menus.

Yay! Works great.

[Barsook]

Has this been brought up already but where are the weekly reports?

[musashi]

Not to be a smart-ass, but you didn't uncheck the 'Send me a copy' checkbox right?  Maybe check your spam folder?

>_>

I'm pretty sure I had it checked, and that it didn't end up as spam in my spam folder. But! Later today when I sent another reply to an open request it did email me my reply so um ... everything seems to be working normal again, at least for me.

[Jestor]

Has this been brought up already but where are the weekly reports?

The weekly updates are found by clicking on the little view button just under the live help button, in the Latest News area.

[mattrious]

As someone who works in web development. I just want to say that you guys have done a wonderful job with the site, bravo.

[Barsook]

Has this been brought up already but where are the weekly reports?

The weekly updates are found by clicking on the little view button just under the live help button, in the Latest News area.

Thanks.